Difference between appSettings and Connection Strings? [Resolved]

Both appears in the config file.

In the Connection Strings we specify the database connections e.g.

<connectionStrings>   
    
    <add name="TestConnection" connectionString="Data Source=ServerName;Initial Catalog=DBName;User ID=LoginName;Password=DBPassword;"providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
    
  </connectionStrings>

In appSettings section we specify the custom application settings e.g.

<appSettings>
	<add key="SmtpUser" value="test@test.com" />
        <add key="SmtpPassword" value="password" />    
</appSettings>

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What is Custom application settings.. However i can specify the database connections in appSetting, then what is actual use of Connection Strings?

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@Amatya,

The connectionString section gives strongly typed access to the connection strings through the ConfigurationManager class.

To read values from Connection strings

System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["TestConnection"].ConnectionString;

AppSettings is meant to store general/custom settings

To read values from AppSettings

System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[key]

Though we can however store the values of database connections in AppSettings, but if you observe properly, you can find out that there is a specific element (providerName="System.Data.SqlClient") for it in connectionStrings

But app settings is only key-value pair type.

Please let us know if this clears the doubt.

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1 more question dude...
Can you give the Example of Key value pair examples in appSetting and where it helps and whats its use..

<appSettings>
        <add key="SmtpUser" value="test@test.com" />
        <add key="SmtpPassword" value="password" />    
</appSettings>

You have provided the Example but what it is doing really ?

Thanks for you quick answers for my question :)

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